Binding Band And Binding Band Set

ABSTRACT

A binding band comprises a band part, a pendant hook part provided at one end of the band part, and an enclosed-wall part provided at the other end of the band part and having a passage through which the band part is vertically passed. The enclosed-wall part has a slit through which the band part is inserted into the passage from the side.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a binding band and binding band set andmore particularly, it relates to a binding band and binding band setwhich can be hooked on a wall or a column.

2. Background Art

The conventional binding band is disclosed in Japanese Unexamined PatentPublication No. 2003-237823, for example.

The binding band comprises a band part having a plurality of long andthin teeth continuously provided in the longitudinal direction, and aframed buckle having a hole at one end of the band part, to which theband part is inserted and a locking tooth which engages with the tooth,at a part of the hole.

The above document (Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No.2003-237823) discloses a binding band in which a band part does noteasily come off but can be pulled out by a simple operation.

The conventional binding band was constituted as described above.Although the band part of the binding band was devised in many ways,treatment after binding was not considered.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention was made in view of the above problems and it isan object of the present invention to provide a binding band and abinding band set in which a desired arrangement can be made after anobject is bound by the binding band.

A binding band according to the present invention comprises a band part,a connecting part provided at one end of the band part, and anenclosed-wall part provided at the other end of the band part and havinga passage through which the band part is vertically passed, in which theenclosed-wall part has a slit through which the band part is insertedinto the passage from the side.

Thus, the band part can be inserted into the enclosed-wall part throughthe slit and the binding band can be retained by a certain connectingapparatus provided separately through the connecting part provided onone end of the band part.

As a result, the binding band in which a desired arrangement can be madeafter an object is bound with the binding band.

Preferably, the slit has a first opening dimension, the band partcomprises a neck part having a width dimension smaller than the firstopening dimension and a band body having a third width dimension largerthan the first opening dimension, and the passage has a width dimensionlarger than the third width dimension.

Further preferably, the connecting part has a fourth width dimensionlarger than the third width dimension.

The band body may be provided with a plurality of continuous teeth andthe enclosed-wall part may be provided with a locking part to be engagedwith the teeth.

It is preferable that the neck part is provided at one end of the bandpart and between the band body and the connecting part.

In addition, the connecting part may be a pendant hook part and thependant hook part may be turned around the band part. In addition, thependant hook part is preferably detachable from the band part.

Further preferably, the connecting part has a configuration that can bedetachably connected to a predetermined connecting tool.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the band bodycomprises a first band body provided on the side of the enclosed-wallpart, and a second band body connected to the first band body.

A second neck part having the same width dimension as that of the firstneck part may be provided between the first band body and the secondband body.

The second band body may be provided with a stopper member preventingthe whole second band body from passing through the passage.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a binding band setcomprises a first binding band and a second binding band and a bindingband connecting tool for connecting the first and second binding bandsdetachably. Each of the binding bands comprises a band part, aconnecting part provided at one end of the band part and anenclosed-wall part provided at the other end of the band and having apassage through which the band is passed in the vertical direction, inwhich the enclosed-wall part has a slit through which the band part isinserted into the passage, and the binding band connecting tool connectsthe connecting part of the first binding band and the connecting part ofthe second binding band detachably.

Preferably, the binding band connecting tool comprises a first receivingopening detachably receiving the first binding band connecting part, anda second receiving opening detachably receiving the second binding bandconnecting part.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, a bindingband comprises first and second neck parts having a first dimension, afirst band body provided at a region sandwiched between the first andsecond neck parts and having a second width dimension larger than thefirst dimension, a second band body connected to the first band bodythrough the second neck part and having a third width dimension smallerthan the second width dimension, and an enclosed-wall part provided atthe end of the second band body in the opposite direction to the firstband body and provided with a passage having a dimension smaller thanthe second width dimension but larger than the third width dimension.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a binding band according to the presentinvention;

FIG. 2 is a side view showing the binding band according to the presentinvention;

FIG. 3 is a view showing a detail of an enclosed-wall part;

FIG. 4 is a view showing a state in which the binding band is used;

FIG. 5 is a view showing a procedure for passing a band part through theenclosed-wall part;

FIG. 6 is a view showing a procedure for passing the band part throughthe enclosed-wall part;

FIG. 7 is a view showing another embodiment of a pendant hook part;

FIG. 8 is a view showing another embodiment in which the pendant hookpart engages with a neck part;

FIG. 9 is a view taken from a part shown by arrows IX-IX in FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a view showing a binding band set in which two binding bandseach having connecting parts are connected with a connecting tool;

FIG. 11 is a view showing the connecting tool;

FIG. 12 is a view showing a method of connecting the connecting tool andthe binding band;

FIG. 13 is a view showing a method of using the binding band set;

FIG. 14 is a view showing a method of using the binding band set;

FIG. 15 is a view showing a pendant hook part provided with an expansionpreventing ring;

FIG. 16 is a plan view showing a binding band according to anotherembodiment;

FIG. 17 is a side view showing the binding band according to anotherembodiment;

FIG. 18A is a view showing a used state of the binding band according toanother embodiment; and

FIG. 18B is a view showing the used state of the binding band accordingto another embodiment.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention is described withreference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a binding bandaccording to one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is asectional view taken from a part shown by arrows II-II in FIG. 1, FIG. 3is a sectional view taken from a part shown by arrows III-III in FIG. 1.In addition, a part (shown by A) is enlarged so as to be easilyunderstood in FIG. 2.

Referring to FIGS. 1 to 3, a binding band 10 comprises a band part 11, ahook part 17 provided at one end of the band part 11 as an example of aconnecting part, and an enclosed-wall part 20 provided at the other endof the band part 11 and having a passage through which the band part 11is passed in the vertical direction.

The band part 11 comprises a band body 12 and a neck part 18 provided onthe side of the hook part 17 of the band part 11. The neck part 18 has acylindrical shape and the band part 11 has a flat shape.

The band part 11 has a predetermined width d2 and a plurality of teeth15 continuously provided in the longitudinal direction in the flat bandbody 12 as shown in FIG. 1. Referring to the part shown by A in FIG. 2,the tooth 15 has a vertical surface 15 a perpendicular to the surface ofthe band body 12 and a slanted surface 15 b which is gradually decreasedin thickness toward the neck part 18.

The enclosed-wall part 20 has a passage 35 inside, through which theband part 11 is passed. A thickness dimension of the passage 35 isalmost the same as that of the band part 11 or slightly larger thanthat. A slit 33 having a width dimension dl smaller than the width d2 ofthe band part 11 is formed at a tip end of the passage 35 in theenclosed-wall part 20. In order to form the passage 35 and the slit 33,the enclosed-wall part 20 comprises a pair of portal wall parts 22 a and22 b which are oppositely provided at an interval. A space is providedbetween the pair of wall parts 22 a and 22 b and a locking part 24 isprovided at the space.

The locking part 24 is elastically supported on the pair of wall parts22 a and 22 b by a support part 31 in a state in which a space part isopened around. In addition, the locking part 24 is arranged so as tointersect with the passage 35.

Here, the width dl of the slit 33 is larger than that of the neck part18. Therefore, the neck part 18 and the subsequent band body 12 of thebinding band 10 are passed through the passage 35 of the enclosed-wallpart 20 as will be described below with reference to FIGS. 4 to 6.

The locking part 24 has a locking tooth 26 which abuts on the verticalsurface 15 a of the tooth 15 provided in the band part 11. A rib 27(refer to FIG. 3) is provided at the locking part 24 so as to retain thelocking tooth 26 at a predetermined position with respect to the supportpart 31.

As described above, the tooth 15 provided in the band body 12 has theslanted surface 15 b which is gradually increased in thickness from theneck part 18 and the vertical surface 15 a succeeding to the slantedsurface. When the band body 12 is passed through the passage 35, sinceit engages with the locking part 24 in the increasing order ofthickness, an object can be easily bound by pulling the pendant hook 17which was passed through the passage 35. In addition, once the object isbound and the tooth 15 engages with the locking tooth 26, it isdifficult to release the engagement in the reverse direction.

Next, a description is made of how to use the binding band having thehook part 17 as one example of the connecting part. FIG. 4 is a viewshowing a state in which the binding band 10 binds the object and thelocking tooth 26 of the locking part 24 engages with the tooth 15 of theband part 11. As shown by an arrow in FIG. 4, the hook part 17 and theneck part 18 are brought close to the enclosed-wall part 20, and theneck part 18 is passed through the slit 33 and then the band body 12 ispassed through the passage 35.

A concrete inserting method is described with reference to FIGS. 5 and6. FIG. 5 is a view showing a state in which the neck part 18 of thebinding band 10 is brought close to the slit 33 and FIG. 6 is a viewshowing a state in which the neck part 18 of the binding band 10 ispassed through the slit 33.

Referring to FIGS. 5 and 6, the neck part 18 of the binding band 10 isput in the slit 33 of the enclosed-wall part 20 and then the band part11 is put through the passage 35. Then, the pendant hook 17 is pulled.As a result, as shown in FIG. 4, the band part 11 is integrated with theenclose-wall part 20. The object bound by the band part 11 is not shown.

Referring to FIG. 4, since the binding band 10 has the pendant hook part17, the pendant hook part 17 can be hooked on any projection after theobject is bound.

Next, the pendant hook part 17 is described. As shown in FIG. 1, thependant hook part 17 is in the shape of a hook. Since the hook part 17of the binding band 10 is hook-shaped, the binding band 10 can be hookedon any external convex part.

In addition, instead of the hook-shaped pendant hook part 17, aring-shaped pendant hook 51 may be used as shown in FIG. 7. In the caseof the ring-shaped hook part 51, the binding band 10 can be easilyhooked on a projected nail, bar and the like and it is not liable to getunhooked even when it is shaken in some degree.

Although the pendant hook part 17 is in the shape of a hook on a flatsurface of the band part 11 in FIG. 1, the present invention is notlimited to this and the hook of the pendant hook part 17 may be faced inany direction with respect to the flat surface of the band part 11.

Next, another embodiment of the present invention is described. FIGS. 8and 9 show views of anther embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 8is a sectional view showing a vicinity of a hook part 41 and a neck part18 according to another embodiment, and FIG. 9 is a view taken from apart shown by arrows IX-IX in FIG. 8.

Referring to FIGS. 8 and 9, a neck supporting part 48 is provided as theconnecting part and a pendant hook part 41 is provided using the necksupporting part 48. The pendant hook part 41 can be turned in anydirection with respect to the neck part 18 and detached from the neckpart 18.

Referring to FIGS. 8 and 9, the neck part 18 has a cylindrical necksupporting part 48 whose diameter is larger than that of the neck part18, at its tip end. Meanwhile, the pendant hook part 41 has a hook partfixing part 42 at a part in which the fixing part 42 engages with theneck part 18.

As shown in FIG. 9, the hook part fixing part 42 has a neck partsupporting part 44 for rotatably retaining the cylindrical necksupporting part 48 at the end on the side of the neck part 18. The neckpart supporting part 44 is U-shaped so that the neck part 18 can bedismounted from one direction in its circumferential direction. Inaddition, a stopper 45 is provided at the neck part supporting part 44so that the neck part 18 may not get out.

Since the neck part 18 and the pendant hook part 17 have suchconfigurations, the pendant hook part 17 can be faced in any directionwith respect to the direction of the flat part of the band part 11.Furthermore, the pendant hook part 17 may be mounted on the neck part 18after the object is bound with the binding band and the bound object maybe retained at any position.

Although the description was made of the example in which the pendanthook part is in the shape of a hook or a ring in the above embodiments,the present invention is not limited to the above shapes and anyconfiguration may be employed provided that it can be retained at theoutside.

Furthermore, the description was made of the case in which the neck partis cylindrical in the above embodiments, the present invention is notlimited to this and it may be flat or have configuration changed from aflat shape to a cylindrical shape.

Still further, although the description was made of the case in whichthe locking tooth is locked after engagement with the tooth in the aboveembodiments, the present invention is not limited to this and it may beconstituted so as to be unlocked and released.

A still another embodiment of the present invention will be describedhereinafter. According to this embodiment, a binding band set isprovided by connecting two binding bands each having the neck supportingparts 48 as the connecting parts shown in FIG. 8 with a connecting tool.FIG. 10 shows the connected state. Referring to FIG. 10, two bindingbands 40 a and 40 b are connected with a connecting tool 50. FIG. 11shows the detail of the connecting tool 50. FIG. 11 is an enlarged viewshowing a part XI in FIG. 10. Referring to FIG. 11, the connecting tool50 has a first receiving opening 51 detachably receiving a necksupporting part 48 a of one binding band 40 a, and a second receivingopening 52 detachably receiving a neck supporting part 48 b of the otherbinding band 40 b. The first receiving opening 51 and the secondreceiving opening 52 comprise neck supporting part receiving parts 51 aand 52 a receiving the neck supporting part 48 of the binding band 40,and neck part slits 51 b and 52 b receiving the neck part 18,respectively.

FIG. 12 is a view showing a state in which the two binding bands 40 aand 40 b are to be connected to the connecting tool 50. As shown by anarrow in FIG. 12, the neck supporting parts 48 a and 48 b of the bindingbands 40 a and 40 b are inserted into the receiving openings 51 and 52of the connecting tool 50 from the direction in which the receivingopenings 51 and 52 of the connecting tool 50 are provided so as to beconnected, respectively.

Next, a concrete method for using the binding band set shown in FIG. 10will be described. FIGS. 13 and 14 are views showing one example of themethod of using the binding band set. As shown in FIGS. 13 and 14, theone binding band 40 b is mounted on a hanging rod 54 previously. Then, arope 55 and the like to be hung is bound by the other binding band 40 a.Then, the binding band 40 a binding the rope 55 and the like and thebinding band 40 b mounted on the hanging rod 54 are connected with theconnecting tool 55.

FIG. 14 shows a case where an electric wire 56 and the like are bound bythe binding band set shown in FIG. 10.

In addition, it is not needless to say that the binding band set can beused in any usage other than the above.

Next, a method of preventing the pendant hook part 41 from expanding.According to the binding band 10 having the pendant hook part 41 shownin FIGS. 1 or 8, the hook part 41 could expand because of lowering instrength of the pendant hook part 41 while it is hung and the hungobject could fall. FIG. 15 is a view showing the pendant hook 41provided with an expansion preventing ring 43 for preventing it. Asshown in FIG. 15, a hole 41 a is provided at the connecting part betweenthe pendant hook part 41 and the hook part fixing part 42 and the ring43 for preventing the expansion is provided such that it is passedthrough the hole 41 a and can be turned around the hole 41 a. The otherend of the expansion preventing ring 42 is engaged with an engagementprojection part 41 provided at the end of the pendant hook to preventthe hook part 41 from expanding when the hook part 41 is hung.

Next, a still another embodiment of the present invention will bedescribed. FIGS. 16 and 17 are a plan view and a side view showing abinding band according to this embodiment of the present invention,respectively. Referring to FIGS. 16 and 17, a second neck part 62 and asecond band body 61 are provided between the band body 12 and the neckpart 18 of the binding band 40 shown in FIG. 10. Since the second bandbody 61 and the second neck part 62 are provided in this embodiment, theband body 12 and the neck part 18 in the above embodiment are referredto as the first band body and the first neck part, occasionally in thefollowing embodiment.

Here, the configurations and dimensions of the second band body 61 andthe second neck part 62 are the same as those of the first band body 12and the first neck part 18. Therefore, the second neck part 62 can bepassed through the slit 33 of the enclosed-wall part 20.

The second band body 61 has a passage part 63 having the same width d2as that of the first band body 12, and a stopper part 64 having a widthso as not to pass the passage 35, and a step part 65 is provided betweenthe passage part 63 and the stopper part 64. In addition, a recess 66 isprovided in the center of the second band body 61 to constitute a steppart to be engaged with the locking part 24 (refer to a part surroundedby a circle pointed by an arrow in FIG. 17).

Next, a method of using this binding band 60 will be described. When thebinding band 60 is inserted into the passage 35 of the enclosed-wallpart 20 through the slit 33, the object bound by the binding band 60 canbe squeezed and retained similar to that in the above embodiment.Meanwhile, even when the first neck part 18 is inserted into the passage35 of the enclosed-wall part 20 through the slit 33, since the stopperpart 64 preceding the step part 65 cannot pass the passage 35, the boundobject can be retained without being squeezed. This state is shown inFIGS. 18A and 18B.

FIG. 18A shows the state of the object bound by the binding band 60 whenthe first neck part 18 is passed through the slit 33 of theenclosed-wall part 20, and FIG. 18B is a view taken from arrow B-B inFIG. 18A. As shown in FIG. 18A, according to this embodiment, a member68 bound by the binding band 60 is hung loosely without being squeezed.In addition, in FIG. 18A, the neck supporting part 48 is detachablyretained by a pendant member 71 that is large in width and has aconfiguration close to an ellipse.

As described above, according to this embodiment, since the two neckparts are provided in the binding band, the binding band can retain thebound member selectively whether the bound member is retained so as tobe squeezed or retained without being squeezed by selecting either oneof the two neck parts.

In addition, although the stopper part is provided such that the widthof the second band body 61 is provided so as to be partially larger thanthat of the passage 35 in the above embodiment, the present invention isnot limited to this and a stopper part may be provided such that thedimension of its thickness and the like is changed.

In addition, although the description has been made of the case wherethe length of the first band body is longer than that of the second bandbody in the above embodiment, the length of the first band body and thelength of the second band body may be set to any dimension.

Although the embodiments of the present invention were made withreference to the drawings, the present invention may not be limited tothe illustrated embodiments. Various kinds of modifications orvariations can be added to the above embodiments in the same scope orthe equivalent scope of the present invention.

The present invention can be advantageously used as a binding band whichcan be hanged on a wall or a column.

1. A binding band comprising: a band part; a connecting part provided atone end of said band part; and an enclosed-wall part provided at theother end of said band part and having a passage through which said bandpart is passed in a direction perpendicular to a direction that the bandpart extends; wherein said enclosed-wall part has a slit through whichsaid band part is inserted into said passage from the side; said slithas a first opening dimension, said band part comprises a first neckpart having a second width dimension smaller than said first openingdimension and a band body having a third width dimension larger than thefirst opening dimension, and said passage has a width dimension largerthan said third width dimension.
 2. (canceled)
 3. The binding bandaccording to claim 1, wherein said connecting part has a fourth widthdimension larger than said third width dimension.
 4. The binding bandaccording to claim 1, wherein a plurality of continuous teeth areprovided in said band body, and said enclosed-wall part comprises alocking part which engages with said tooth.
 5. The binding bandaccording to claim 1, wherein said first neck part is provided at oneend of said band part and between said band body and said connectingpart.
 6. The binding band according to claim 1, wherein said connectingpart is a pendant hook part.
 7. The binding band according to claim 6,wherein said pendant hook part can be rotated with respect to said bandpart.
 8. The binding band according to claim 6, wherein said pendanthook part is detachable from said band part.
 9. The binding bandaccording to claim 1, wherein said connecting part has a configurationthat can be detachably connected to a predetermined connecting tool. 10.The binding band according to claim 1, wherein said band body comprisesa first band body provided on the side of said enclosed-wall part, and asecond band body connected to said first band body.
 11. The binding bandaccording to claim 10, wherein a second neck part having the same widthdimension as that of said first neck part is provided between said firstband body and said second band body.
 12. The binding band according toclaim 10, wherein said second band body is provided with a stoppermember preventing said whole second band body from passing through saidpassage.
 13. A binding band set comprising a first binding band and asecond binding band and a binding band connecting tool for connectingsaid first and second binding bands detachably, wherein each of saidbinding bands comprises: a band part; a connecting part provided at oneend of said band part; and an enclosed-wall part provided at the otherend of said band part, and having a passage through which said band ispassed in the vertical direction, wherein said enclosed-wall part has aslit through which said band part is inserted into said passage; andsaid binding band connecting tool connects the connecting part of saidfirst binding band and the connecting part of said second binding banddetachably.
 14. The binding band set according to claim 13, wherein saidbinding band connecting tool comprises a first receiving openingdetachably receiving said first binding band connecting part, and asecond receiving opening detachably receiving said second binding bandconnecting part.
 15. A binding band comprising: first and second neckparts having a first dimension; a first band body provided at the regionsandwiched between said first and second neck parts and having a secondwidth dimension larger than said first dimension; a second band bodyconnected to said first band body through said second neck part andhaving a third width dimension smaller than said second width dimension,and an enclosed-wall part provided at the end of said second band bodyin the opposite direction to said first band body and provided with apassage having a dimension smaller than said second width dimension butlarger than said third width dimension.